I can accept that as an explanation, but it still leaves open the question- why have we been blindsided, why could this not have been anticipated and headed off? What part of the formula says that man is going to reject God to the degree that we are losing the battle? What are the merits and weaknesses in both God rejection and God acceptance that is finding particular expression in the early 21st century?
"why have we been blindsided,
why could this not have been anticipated and headed off?"
Most United States Citizens can't contemplate fellow citizens
actively trying top destroy this country.
Therefore the thought of "anticipating and heading off these actions" would be considered a waste of time,
... until TREASONIST Obama came along and released the Socialists [Marxists, Keynesians].
"What part of the formula says that man is going to reject God
to the degree that we are losing the battle?"
Socialists [Marxists, Keynesians] don't believe in God. Any actions they have toward religion is feined to fool the masses.
The battle is being lost, as punishment for rejecting God's laws, and that was foretold long ago.
"What are the merits and weaknesses in both God rejection
and God acceptance
that is finding particular expression in the early 21st century?"
Are you serious?
Look around you.
Ponder this...
If they shall confess their iniquity,
and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me,
and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them,
and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled,
and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob,
and also my covenant with Isaac,
and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
The land also shall be left of them,
and shall enjoy her sabbaths,
while she lieth desolate without them:
and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments,
and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
And yet for all that,
when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away,
neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly,
and to break my covenant with them:
for I am the LORD their God.
But I will for their sakes
remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt
in the sight of the heathen,
that I might be their God:
I am the LORD.